Hat holder



\ May 25 1926.

c. M. VINCENT HAT HOLDER Filed May 29'. 1924 Patented May 25, 1192a CLARENCE M. VINCENT, or ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

HAT HOLDER.

Application filed May 29, 1924. Serial No. 716,752.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in hat-holders, and is especially adapted for use in covered carriages, where the cover material is flexible and sup ported upon aframework, and may sag down between the ribs of such framework. My invention is also adapted for use in many places where there is need for such an article.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a hat-holder adapted to be secured to a rib of the frame of top or cover of a motor vehicle, which shall be provided with means to support the fabric material composing said top or cover off of a hat placed in said holder, and to provide an arm adapted to embrace the crown of a hat so that the hat brim will rest on said arm and be firmly clamped by the hat-holder, so that the hat so held will not have any relative movement in the holder.

The features of my invention are herein after fully described and pointed out, and are illustrated in the accompanying draw ings in which z Figure 1 is a side elevation of my im proved hat-holder, showing a hat held in place therein, by broken lines.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the same.

In these drawings A indicates a transverse rib in a carriage top-frame, or other suitable support, to which it is desired to fasten my hat-holder.

B indicates the upper member of my hatholder, which is provided with two spaced arms B adapted to coincide with the contour of a hat-brim. The upper member B has formed thereon a bracket C, having openings therethrough to receive screws C by means of which it may be secured to the support A. The bracket C, may also be provided with a horizontal plate D with holes therethrough, as shown in Fig. 2, by means of which it can be secured to the under side of a support if desired.

Hinged to the bracket 0, by means of a hinge-pin E is a swinging clamp member F of the same contour as the upper member B, and is adapted to embrace the crown of a hat placed therein, and press the brim of the hat against the upper member B. A spring G is placed in holes through'the upper and lower members B and F, and transverse pins G" inserted between the coils of said spring, as shown, so that said spring will cause the lower swinging member F to support a hat placed thereon and firmly clamp it against the upper member B.

The swinging sp ringpressed, member F is provided with a short arm, or thumb-piece F by means of whichthe lower member may be caused to swing downward, as shown by broken lines in Fig. 1, to receive or release a hat.

The upper member B, when the hat-holder is placed in position under the cover of a vehicle top, prevents the fabric of the cover from sagging down upon a hat which may beplaced in the hat-holder.

Having thus fully shown and described my invention, what I claim as new and de sire to secure by Letters Patent'is: V 1. A hat rack comprising an arm having substantially semi-circular prongs; means to rigidly secure the same to a suitable support, a spring-pressed arm hinged to said rigid arm, and prongs on said spring-pressed arm adapted to coincide with the prongs on said rigid arm, whereby a hat brim may be clamped between said prongs.

2. A hat rack comprising a stationary arm,

means to secure same to a suitable support,

another arm hinged to the first mentioned arm, a spring secured to andspanning said arms, bifurcated prongs on said hinged arm adapted to embrace the crown of a hat, and means projecting from the rigid arm parallel with said prongs adapted to press a hat brim against said prongs.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

CLARENCE M. VINCENT. 

